"Today I’m delighted to announce Willow, our latest quantum chip. Willow has state-of-the-art performance across a number of metrics, enabling two major achievements. The first is that Willow can reduce errors exponentially as we scale up using more qubits. This cracks a key challenge in quantum error correction that the field has pursued for almost 30 years. Second, Willow performed a standard benchmark computation in under five minutes that would take one of today’s fastest supercomputers 10 septillion (that is, 1025) years — a number that vastly exceeds the age of the Universe..."--Hartmut Neven, Founder and Lead, Google Quantum AI
Technology made the middle class possible, with labor saving devices decreasing the need for servants and farmworkers, more people could do other types of work, and most of that work paid better and allowed for more freedom. But technological change isn't just about stuff; it's about how we live, which influences how we think, feel, and behave. Technology is one of the root causes of cultural change.
"We may have created a Frankenstein."--Richard M. Nixon
